" Compared to the NVIDIA offering we see the HD 4890s have a massive jump......Straight off the bat we can see a nice little performance increase with the HIS HD 4890 Turbo. We can actually see at the Extreme preset it manages to beat out the GTX 260 which is something the stock model couldn't achieve. " - TweakTown's "Must Have" Editor's Choice

" The His HD4870 IceQ 4+ is one of the fastest single-GPU cards around and it comes at a very good price......In real-life gaming it produced an average frame rate of 47fps in World in Conflict and 65.49fps in Far Cry 2. At higher resolutions it is still impressive; 59fps for Far Cry 2 at 1,920x1,200 is still very playable. " - 4 stars out of 5, review by ComputerActive

" It is one of the fastest single core HD4870s thanks to the extra memory and slightly overclocked core and memory engines working to good effect......Performance wise the HD4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo certainly gives plenty of bang for the buck. Testing it in 3Dmark06 gave an impressive score of 16,130 marks at a 1,280 x 1,024 pixel resolution " - IT Reviews Recommended Awards

" HD 4890 is faster than the GTX 260 Core216 by 10-20% in average and it seems like ATI has hit a jackpot. HIS' card outran its non-overclocked sibling by 1-4% in average. (Overclocking) Close to 1000MHz should be possible but you can definitely expect 900+. If you are ATI man and you want the fastest single card, this is an answer to your prayers. " - Review by Fudzilla

" It's obvious that ATI have not just relaunched an overclocked version of a previously released chip in a new packing, but have worked on both optimization and making the chip more effective...... HD4890 card banks almost 2000 points more out of the test than the HD4870 and a good 1500 points more than GTX260" - Scores 9.5 out of 10 in Tweakup's Review

Benchmark.pl's Super Product Award

" HIS as one of the closest ATI partner have very good components and of course with reasonable selling price. Promising performance is one of the reasons to switch to this vga card and also HIS 4890 very overclockable." - First Benchmarking HIS HD4890 1GB DDR5 Review

" The fantastic cooling system does a very good job of keeping the card rolling along at a low temperature. It wasn't the quietest card during our Crysis sound tests, although the 46-48dB generated by our test PC during normal use was very quiet indeed......it generates some very good framerates and it finishes marginally ahead of the more expensive GeForce GTX 260......This HIS card is the best deal on offer here" - PC Advisor's Best Buy Award

XtremePC - Product of the year 2008

Gamestar Award - Score 85 out of 100

" Tweak it a little bit like we did and you'll easily whip out another 15, maybe 20% performance out of it......You'll absolutely respect what it does for the money, and the Zalman passive cooler tops that off. The Radeon 4650 GDDR2 512MB iSilence4 version comes recommended by Guru3D.com " - Guru3D Great Value Award

" For users who want a graphic solution from Performance segment with exceptional test results, HIS 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo is one of the best options now " - XtremPC Review

"  HIS 4670 iSilence 4 is an excelent graphic solution for the users who are looking for an afordable system; silenced and capable of playing latest games " - XtremPC Review

" HIS 4830 IceQ 4 is the most performant Radeon HD4830 tested in our lab. Represents an excelent solution between Mainstream and Performance " - XtremPC Review

" Crysis worked very well for ATI, showing all the power of HIS 4800 on top of Crysis, as we see some results with resolutions up to 20% higher (compare with GeForce GTX 260 216 Cores). Note that the difference between 4870 to 1GB of 512Mb for nearly 10% in the highest resolutions........This review is based on the test of a HIS Radeon HD4870 1GB IceQ 4 Turbo, being HIS among the best ATI AIB partners when it comes to product quality, always aiming diferencials, mainly the cooling system of the cards and overclocked models. " - Adrenaline's Recommended Award

" Things were even more promisinh on Company of Heroes, with a great score of 57.1 FPS which is concidentally the highest in all reviewed HD 4870 cards......Next, we have Crysis where the card performed just as well, giving us an overall frame rate of 34.83 FPS with everything pushed to High, 2X AA running at 1680x1050 resolution...... " - Scores 8.5 out of 10 Points! HWM Silver Award

" In terms of performance the card does reasonably well with a 3DMark Vantage score of P7256 and a 3DMark06 score of 12270. You
should be able to run most of today’s games with most settings maxed-out as we ran the Far Cry 2 benchmark on Ultra High and still got more than a 40 FPS frame rate. Older DX10 games like Company of Heroes will probably fly with the card as it managed a score of 54.5 FPS in the Company of Heroes benchmark test. " - Scores 8 out of 10! HWM Silver Awards

TestSeek Editor's Choice

Testseek Good Buy Award

CaseAndCooling's Silver Award